Evening sacrifice — When the people used to assemble together. All good people ought to own those that appear and act for God against vice and profaneness. Every one that fears God, ought to stand by them, and do what he can to strengthen their hands.
Verse Ezra 9:4. _THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY_] Those that had returned long before with Zerubbabel; see Ezra 9:1. _UNTIL THE EVENING SACRIFICE._] The _morning_ sacrifice was the first of all th...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. Ezra's astonishment and grief (Ezra 9:1)_ 2. Ezra's confession and prayer (Ezra 9:5) Ezra 9:1. When all these things had been done (that are related in chapter 8:33-36) Ezra was confr...
REPORT IS MADE TO EZRA OF THE MARRIAGES OF JEWS WITH THE HEATHEN. Ezra's zeal in this matter resulted in his going beyond the requirements of the Law (_cf._ Deuteronomy 23:7). Ezra 9:1. the Canaanites...
TREMBLED AT THE WORDS, &C. Compare Isaiah 66:2. TRANSGRESSION. defection. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44. SACRIFICE. meal offering. Hebrew. _minchah._ App-43....
There are, collected unto Ezra those who believed in the word of God and dreaded the displeasure consequent upon such transgression. Perhaps the reference is especially to the threats contained in the...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT C. Ezra hears about some current sins, particularly marriage to foreigners, and he prays. 1. Ezra is informed of the problem. TEXT, EZRA 9:1-5 1 Now when these thin...
_THEN WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO ME EVERY ONE THAT TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY; AND I SAT ASTONIED UNTIL THE EVENING SACRIFICE...
EZRA'S INDIGNATION AT INTERMARRIAGES WITH THE HEATHEN 1. The Canaanites, etc.] In the Law it was only with the various Canaanite nations that marriage was altogether forbidden (Exodus 34:12; Deuterono...
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 After these things had happened, the leaders came to me. They said, ‘The *people of Israel have not kept themselves separate from th...
IX. (1) NOW WHEN THESE THINGS WERE DONE. — The remainder of the book is occupied with the execution of Ezra’s function as a moral reformer. One chief disorder is mentioned, that of the mixed marriage...
וְ אֵלַ֣י יֵאָסְפ֗וּ כֹּ֤ל חָרֵד֙ בְּ דִבְרֵ֣
FOREIGN MARRIAGES Ezra 9:1 The successful issue of Ezra's undertaking was speedily followed by a bitter disappointment on the part of its leader, the experience of which urged him to make a drastic...
A LEADER'S SORROWS FOR HIS PEOPLE'S SINS Ezra 9:1 The mingling of the holy seed with heathen peoples was always the curse of Israel, and it has been the temptation of God's children in every age. Do...
On Ezra's arrival at Jerusalem complaint was made to him of the failure and sin of the people. What an appalling story it was, that during these sixty years, even though there had been no return to he...
_To me, in the court of the temple, chap. x. 1. (Menochius) --- Sacrifice, which was offered last of all, about sun-set, Exodus xxix. 38. The Jews commonly protract their fasts till the stars appear....
What a finished picture hath the Holy Ghost here drawn of a saint of God; silent under the heavy affliction of soul, arising from indignation at the awful calamity. The rending the garment, and the pl...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10. Alas! as soon as he can look into these things, he finds the law already broken, evil already come in. The people of Israel had not kept themselves...
THERE WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO ME EVERYONE THAT TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... That had a reverence for the word of God, and the things contained in it; feared to break the laws of God, an...
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice....
_Then were assembled unto me_ To join with me, both in lamenting the sin, and in endeavouring to effect the redress of it; _every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel_ Who stood in awe...
1 Ezra mourneth for the affinitie of the people with strangers. 5 He prayeth vnto God with confession of sinnes. 1 NOWE when these things were done, the Princes came to me, saying, The people of Isr...
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, those impressed with the terror of Jehovah's possible wrath, BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN...
THE EVIL OF INTERMARRIAGES EXPOSED...
HUMBLED BECAUSE OF MIXED MARRIAGES (vv. 1-4) If Ezra expected to engage in the pleasant work of the priesthood, it must have been a keen disappointment to find soon after his arrival that there was...
1-4 Many corruptions lurk out of the view of the most careful rulers. Some of the people disobeyed the express command of God, which forbade all marriages with the heathen, Ezra 9:7. Disbelief of God...
THEN WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO ME; to join with me both in lamenting the sin, and in endeavouring the redress of it. EVERY ONE THAT TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, i.e. who stood in awe of God,...
Ezra 9:4 trembled H2730 words H1697 God H430 Israel H3478 assembled H622 (H8735) transgression H4604 captive H1473 sat...
THE PROBLEM OF FOREIGN WIVES IS BROUGHT TO EZRA'S ATTENTION (EZRA 9:1). It is noteworthy that the problem in question was drawn to Ezra's attention by some of the ‘princes' of Israel. This suggests th...
EZRA DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM OF RETURNEES WHO HAVE BEEN LED ASTRAY INTO IDOLATRY HAVING TAKEN FOREIGN WIVES (EZRA 9:1 TO EZRA 10:44). It is important here to recognise that what was in question was not...
CONTENTS: The remnant loses its separated position. Ezra's prayer and confession. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra. CONCLUSION: Let this be the comfort of true penitents, that though their sins have piled up t...
Ezra 9:2. _The holy seed have mingled with the people._ The distinction of the Jews from the heathen was not by nature, but by grace. Their nobility lay in adherence to the covenant of God, and so the...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:1 Ezra Discovers and Confronts the Problem of Intermarriage. Ezra discovers that the Jewish community has mixed with idolatrous non-Jewish groups in religion and in marriage. He le...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:4 TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL describes eagerness to obey God and respect for his holiness (see Isaiah 66:2)....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] We now come to the social and religious reformation effected by Ezra amongst the Jews who had previously returned to their own land (chaps. 9 and 10). And in this chap...
§ 2. REFORMATION OF RELIGION ACCOMPLISHED BY EZRA AT JERUSALEM. EXPOSITION IN the interval between Zerubbabel's rule and the coming of Ezra from Babylon with a special commission appointing him gover...
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to...
2 Chronicles 34:27; Acts 3:1; Daniel 9:21; Exodus 29:39; Ezekiel 9:4;...